Tablets

Following on from the Venue 8, Dell's new 10-inch Android slate boasts high-end specs, depth-sensing cameras and a unique form factor.
One of the biggest Android tablet surprises of 2015 has been the Venue 8 7000 series, the super-thin tablet with a depth-sensing camera and a gorgeous display, which gets even better with Lollipop. Now the manufacturer's back with a second Android 5.0 slate,...

Four speakers, a beastly Intel CPU and an otherworldly design make up one of the most unique Android tablets of Computex.
Gaming is a big deal for Acer. The Taiwanese firm's booth at Computex 2015 prominently displays its line of "Predator" gaming gear — including full-sized PC cases, monitors and other components. And now Acer's gaming focus extends into the mobile world, with the...

ASUS' new tablet range includes three entry-level models and an intriguing Intel-powered high-ender.
This morning at its "Zensation" event in Taipei, ASUS unveiled a new line of 8-inch Android tablets under the ZenPad brand — the ZenPad 8.0 and ZenPad S 8.0. Then after that presentation, the company showed off a further two low-end ZenPad models — the ZenPad 7 and 10, at 7 and 10 inches...

The first of two new Android tablets ASUS has unveiled at the Computex conference here in Taiwan is a bit of a beast. It's got the usual beast of a name to go with it as well — the ZenPad S 8.0 Z580CA. (So ZenPad S it shall be.)
This is an Android 5.0 tablet with ZenUI and ZenMotion, as you'd expect. And as the name implies it's got an 8-inch IPS panel, at a 2048x1536 resolution and 324...

Being able to swap out the back of a device for a different color or maybe to add a little functionality isn't exactly a new phenomenon — phones have been doing it for years. But tablets never really got into that game. That changes today with the ASUS ZenPad 8.0 Z380C, unveiled at the Computex conference in Taiwan,
The 8-inch tablet sports an Atom X3 (SoFIA) quad-core processor and Mali...

Google's 3D-scanning Project Tango developer tablet can be yours, without an invite, for the price of $512.
Google didn't even mention its long-in-development "Project Tango" efforts today during the Google I/O keynote. However, the company is now allowing anyone to purchase its development tablet for the 3D-sensing hardware from the Google Store without an invite for the first time.

If you buy a new Android tablet, the chances are getting better that it might have Office apps from Microsoft pre-installed out of the box.
After announcing that Samsung, Dell and 10 more OEMs would pre-install Microsoft apps and services on their Android tablets earlier this year, Microsoft is announcing similar agreements with 20 more Android tablet makers, including LG and Sony.

The NVIDIA Shield Tablet is receiving an update to Android 5.1, which brings a number of performance improvements to the device.
NVIDIA is pushing out an update for its Shield Tablet (both Wifi and LTE models) that improves performance and responsiveness, adds support for Android for Work and more. The update to Android 5.1 is available on the tablet now for users.

Dell's most impressive Android offering to date has finally been updated to Lollipop, improving an already impressive tablet experience.
It has been six long months since the Dell Venue 8 (aka the 7000 Series or the 7840) crossed our desks. And while we had plenty of nice things to say about this tablet in our review it couldn't be more clear that the biggest problems here were software-...

Samsung has announced that its latest tablet, the Galaxy Tab A, will be available in the UK from May 21, with both Wi-Fi and cellular editions on offer along with a variant that comes bundled with the S-Pen.

T-Mobile is offering customers savings of $100 when purchasing a Samsung phone and tablet together, and use T-Mobile's Equipment Installment Plan to pay them both off.
If you are in the market for a new smartphone and tablet, you will want to check out T-Mobile's latest promotion that will save you $100 on your purchase. With this new deal, customers can save when purchasing a Samsung...

According to an image shared on Twitter by @evleaks, LG is set to launch a tablet called the G Pad X on Verizon.
Not much is known about the tablet other than the fact that it comes with an 8.3-inch screen (which was revealed in an earlier tweet), but from the image above, it looks like the G Pad X will run Android 5.0 with LG's latest UX 4.0 out of the box.

If you're tired of waiting for the Android 5.1.1 OTA to hit your Nexus 9, update manually.
We're a handful of days removed from the announcement that the Android 5.1.1 OTA is now headed to Nexus 9s, but considering that the rollout takes some time it's worth mentioning that the necessary files for a manual update are now available.

AT&T is taking the next step in the tablet market, releasing its own branded tablet, the Trek HD 4G LTE.
While AT&T carries a variety of tablets already, but the Trek HD 4G LTE is different in one major way. This is the carrier's first company-branded tablet. With sales of the Trek HD 4G LTE starting on May 12, and an in-store release date of May 15, the company has not released a...

We're no strangers to Lollipop updates around here, but Dell adding encryption during the update is something new.
One of the big topics to come up during the launch of Android 5.0, especially after using the Nexus 6 and Nexus 9, was the inclusion of full disk encryption to the platform. Nexus users quickly discovered they had little say in the matter, but most manufacturers have left...